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ReviewAutonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical2025

Menopause and its effects on autonomic regulation of blood pressure: Insights and perspectives.

E J Lee, M L Keller-Ross

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Review in Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Female sex hormones do not drive the sex-specific mechanisms of obesity-related hypertension.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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2 authors.

E J LeeDivision of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School, University of Minnesota, United States of America. Electronic address: leex4357@umn.edu.
M L Keller-RossDivision of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School, University of Minnesota, United States of America.

Funding

NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL160012NHLBI NIH HHS L30 HL148927NIA NIH HHS K01 AG064038NIA NIH HHS R21 AG080503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk increases substantially around the typical age of menopause (∼51 yrs). While the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain to be precisely elucidated, menopause-related autonomic (dys)function likely plays a key role in CVD development in postmenopausal females. Sympathetic activity is known to increase with age and may rise more steeply in older females, resulting in autonomic imbalance and chronic disease. The menopausal loss of estradiol, a major female sex hormone, contributes to changes in autonomic and vascular physiology and is implicated in prominent menopause symptoms such as sleep difficulty and vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes/night sweats). Estrogen replacement can mitigate some of these negative health effects, but hormone therapy may not be able to reverse all menopause-linked autonomic dysfunction. Thus, this review explores the vast and complex web connecting menopause physiology and symptomatology, including how sex-hormone loss and menopause symptoms may impact autonomic function- in particular, through altered sympathetic regulation of blood pressure and impaired vagal tone- as a gateway to adverse cardiovascular health and greater CVD risk.

Indexed as

Autonomic Nervous SystemBlood PressureMenopauseAnimalsCardiovascular DiseasesFemaleHumansBaroreflexBlood pressureCardiovascular diseaseHypertensionMuscle sympathetic nerve activitySex-hormone lossWomen's health

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PMCPMC12219667

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